Adam Hall is a bona fide Winter Paralympic legend, having competed at a record six Winter Paralympic Games for a New Zealander and banking a total haul of six Paralympic medals.
Raised in Outram on the Taieri Plains, the Para alpine skier has consistently delivered on the sport’s biggest stage, establishing himself as one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most recognised Paralympians.
Born with spina bifida, Adam calls himself lucky because he is mobile and able to walk. Adam began skiing at age six before moving to snowboarding aged nine. He admits to being a snowboarder at heart but switched back to Para alpine skiing in order to compete at the Torino 2006 Paralympic Winter Games.
At his second Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver 2010 he secured a stunning gold medal in the Men’s Slalom Standing. After a pair of fourth place finishes – in the Men’s Super Combined Standing and Men’s Super-G Standing – at Sochi 2014, Adam returned to the top of the podium at PyeongChang 2018 by regaining the Men’s Slalom Standing title. He also claimed bronze in the Men’s Super Combined Standing.
At his fifth Paralympic Games in Beijing 2022, Adam snared a pair of bronze medals in the Men’s Super Combined Standing and Men’s Slalom Standing.
During the 2025-26 World Cup campaign, the vastly experienced Para alpine skier has continued to make his mark. In his favoured Men’s Slalom Standing he clinched a pair of third places in Feldberg, Germany before later in the campaign securing second in Veysonnaz, Switzerland.
Competing at a record-extending sixth Paralympic Winter Games for a Kiwi, Adam once again impressed at Milano Cortina 2026. Following the Men’s Giant Slalom Standing, where he placed 22nd, he executed an outstanding performance to win silver in the Men’s Slalom Standing. Fourth after the first run, a blistering performance in run two elevated Adam to his sixth Paralympic medal. The feat drew him alongside Paralympian #55 Patrick Cooper as the most decorated New Zealand Winter Paralympian in history.
At the 2018 PyeongChang Paralympic Winter Games Adam received the Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award, given to only two Paralympians who best embody the spirit of the Paralympic Movement. In 2011 Adam was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, for services to sport.
He was named Para Athlete of the Year at the 2018 Halberg Awards. Adam officially received his ‘numbered’ Paralympic pin as part of The Celebration Project in Queenstown in September 2020. At Milano Cortina 2026 he was elected for a four-year term on the IPC Athletes’ Council.
He is married to Elitsa, herself a former Para alpine ski racer who represented the USA at two Winter Paralympic Games. The couple live in Wānaka and have a daughter, Gracelynn.
